Mea She'arim, Jerusalem, 1962

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series Title

La Danse des Fidèles

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image/

sheet: 25.7 × 38.3 cm (10 1/8 × 15 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Brigitte Freed

Accession Number

2017.166.38

Artists / Makers

Leonard Freed (artist) American, 1929 - 2006

Magnum Photos (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Leonard Freed; by artist, top left in graphite perpendicular: Fe198; upper right: Israel [underlined] / Hassidic Jews; center perpendicular: 27236; center on applied Magnum label: 1962; center on applied Magnum label: =OLD #; bottom center: UNIQUE / 1962 JERUSALEM. ISRAEL. / (PURIM IN MEA SHEARIM); by unknown hand, upper right in red ink: E-3; center left partially visible Magnum label printed in black ink; center printed in black ink on applied Magnum label: MAGNUM / [perpendicular] 72 West 45 Street, New York, New York 10036 / [stamped in black ink: LEONARD FREED] Israel / Hasidic boys in the streets of Mea / Shearim in Jerusalem, the living / quarters of the Hasidic Jews. / photo from the book: Leonard Freed / "Isaac the son of Abraham, / Jacob the son of Isaac". / M 145-19 [crossed out]; lower center stamped in black ink: VINTAGE PRINT; lower right: © Leonard Freed-Magnum

Provenance

Brigitte Freed, Garrison, NY; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Freed, Brigitte

Bibliography

1984: Freed, Leonard. La Danse des Fidèles. Paris, 1984: p. 47.